News

This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.29.2026

Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

Human Genetic Modification

Demographic Fears and Far-Right Fantasies

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.26.2026

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Society

She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled

By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics

By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

U.S. States

Member of Hwang Team Involved in Ovum Scandal

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 11.08.2005

A key member of a Korean stem cell team led by professor Hwang Woo-suk at Seoul National University has been...

Stem Cells

Opinion: Stem cell royalty promise just election ruse?

By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee | 11.07.2005

Mark Twain said it best when he commented: "There are lies, damn lies and ballot initiatives."
Actually, Twain didn't say...

Patents & Other IP

Beeson et al Amicus brief

By Steven N.H. Wood | 11.04.2005

Steven N.H. Wood, Esq. (SBN 161291)
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1470 Maria Lane, Suite 300
Walnut Creek, CA...

Govt to enforce PNDT Act vigorously to check sex ratio decline [India]

By Webindia123, Webindia123 | 11.03.2005

The government is going to vigorously enforce the pre-natal diagnostic techniques (PNDT) Act which has become more comprehensive and stringent...

Other Countries

Stem cell center studies ways to protect egg donors

By San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Examiner | 11.02.2005

Officials at California_s new stem cell institute say they are determined to figure out the best way to protect the...

Technologies

Debate grows over return from stem cell program [California]

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times | 11.01.2005

SAN FRANCISCO - During the campaign for California's $3 billion stem cell initiative, supporters predicted as much as $1 billion...

Fact Sheets

Trial aims to measure social effects of choosing babies' sex

By Nature, Nature | 10.27.2005

US doctors have launched a clinical trial to assess the effects of allowing couples to select whether they will have...

Assisted Reproduction

Tax law casts doubt on stem cell royalties: State may not reap billions promised to voters last fall

By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.25.2005

The billion dollars in royalties that voters were told could flow to the state if they passed California's $3 billion...

Fact Sheets